In Roman mythology the deity Janus is represented as having two faces, one looking forward, one backward. He presides over doors, and beginnings. President Obama has said he is focused on the future, that America must move forward. But America is also looking for justice, and that means looking into the past as well. It makes sense that our new …
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Young Alan Greenspan posing for Atlas Shrugged in Ayn Rand’s apartment Digby explores the Bizzaroworld economic logic and the psychology of greed that inflicts the wingnut universe, rooted as it is in Ayn Rand‘s classic 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged here and here. Ronald Reagan, a key enabler of the Bush Depression, implicitly adopted Rand’s disdain for government’s role in fostering …
Not possessing the steely intestinal constitution of the heroic Driftglass, I simply cannot breakfast on the barf of Sunday morning hurl coming outa the teevee talking head mouse circus, as only he can. So I seldom miss reading what he draws from that frothy culture muck-pit. It’s just one more great reason why he’s in a class by himself, and …
Republicans leave another mess for Dems to clean up December’s unemployment numbers are out, showing another 524,000 jobs lost, the largest monthly drop since the last Bush left office, in January 1993. This brings the official rate to 7.2% from last month’s 6.8%– 11 million people. This doesn’t count the number of underemployed or those who’ve given up searching for …
Stampede for ‘Bush shoe’ creates 100 new jobs The Guardian Monday 22 December 2008 Their deployment as a makeshift missile robbed President George Bush of his dignity and landed their owner in jail. But the world’s most notorious pair of shoes have yielded an unexpected bonanza for a Turkish shoemaker. Ramazan Baydan, owner of the Istanbul-based Baydan Shoe Company, has …
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans, led by android creep pussbag Mitch McConnell, crapped all over the last day of Zappadan by pretending the anti-American obstructionist bullshit which continues to flow from every pore of the fascist Republican cabal was actually just them insisting on their “…right to participate in the the legislative process.”
